Well, you could try the WDidle3.exe with the /R option to report what its currently set at.

This is a VERY GOOD suggestion. The /R only reports the status, without writing a change to the drive's firmware settings. It -should- report an error, if the drive can not be set with the utility. If it can't, then the drive doesn't use Intellipark, and then it can't be a problem (since it doesn't use it in the first place). Zero chance of harming the drive by a read-only operation.

Hello Greg, I tried DvrBKRS on a 120 Gig PATA drive with Philips HDR112 Tivo on it. I did a full backup and a full restore to a 250 Gig SATA drive (with an IDE to SATA adapter). After the restore I put the SATA drive with the adapter into the TiVo but it did not work. The TiVo started with "Your Recorder is starting up, Please wait a moment...", then a blue screen, then back to the "Your Recorder ..." message and back and forth continually but no progress past that. Is there any advice you can give me? Thanks, Dave

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I used a WD Blue 250GB SATA /16MB Cache WD2500AAKX. The adapter is an ADP-06 SATA to IDE Bridge Board. According to the WD support site the WDidle3.exe should not be used on my drive.

WD Blue drives won't work at all in a Series 1 for some reason. Any of their other drives are fine and the Blues run great in later models, but S1s just don't like them.

which I got a mod to make sticky so it's always at the top of the Upgrade Center listings, you'd have seen that the Kingwin is generally not known to work in TiVos and that S1 TiVos have to have an adapter with a Marvell brand chipset, and I think it's mentioned in there a time or two that S1s also don't like Caviar Blues.

But it is true that Caviar Blues don't have Intellipark and therefore wdidle3.exe is unnecessary for them.

That Blue would probably make a nice Windows boot drive in your PC however.

Hi, my TiVo just got stuck in a Green Screen Death Spiral. It is a Premiere 320 model but it was a model that had been "professionally upgraded" to 500 gig by a reseller. The drive seems to be toast. I desperately need a drive image but, because this unit was already upgraded, I don't know which image to ask for. I was planning on buying either a 500 gig or 1T drive. If someone could help me I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

Hi, my TiVo just got stuck in a Green Screen Death Spiral. It is a Premiere 320 model but it was a model that had been "professionally upgraded" to 500 gig by a reseller. The drive seems to be toast. I desperately need a drive image but, because this unit was already upgraded, I don't know which image to ask for. I was planning on buying either a 500 gig or 1T drive. If someone could help me I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

You might as well try to find a 2TB WD20EURS on sale somewhere for about $100 and get more GB/$.

Hi, my TiVo just got stuck in a Green Screen Death Spiral. It is a Premiere 320 model but it was a model that had been "professionally upgraded" to 500 gig by a reseller. The drive seems to be toast. I desperately need a drive image but, because this unit was already upgraded, I don't know which image to ask for. I was planning on buying either a 500 gig or 1T drive. If someone could help me I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

4. If it asks about a cablecard, just say to worry about it later, and use the digital lineup anyway.

5. This will speed you through as fast as possible, while updating the software, and downloading minimal guide data (which is really empty entries).

6. If you have a cablecard installed, it may actually increase the amount of disk data that gets changed, and that DVRBARS will back-up. This gets worse if you have the coax connected, but still minimized, because the TiVo won't be automatically tune to any valid channel.

7. Yes, if you need to, you can pair a cablecard with this configuration (but you'll need to insert the card and connect the coax.

Hope this helps! I've never seen anybody post about this before, anywhere.

EDIT/ADD: Look for the next post from me to find out how to eliminate the need for the recipient of a pre-imaged drive, or drive image, from having to do a C&DE.

I'll add it here as well. Here's the trick:

When you are all done on your end, with everything else, do a C&DE, and have the time to babysit the TiVo. Once it finishes the C&DE, it will do another reboot (without ever fully booting all the way, throughout this). PROMPLY pull the power cord as soon as all the lights flash (after the C&DE screen is done), or within seconds of the "Welcome Powering Up" screen comes on (once it gets to "Just a few minutes more", it is too late). This will stop the drive from bonding itself to the TSN of the TiVo it is currently in, and will eliminate the need for a C&DE by the person who receives the drive, or the image made from it.

Hi, I have a brand new Premiere 4, lifetime subscription with a WD500AVDS and I am trying to upgrade using DVRBARS to a 2TB WD20EURS (manuf May, 2013).

I copied the disk and it works fine, it boots and plays and all shows are there, but I can't get it to expand or supersize. The new drive shows the same recording capacity.

I tried running the linux JMFS-rev104.iso on a bootable CD but it fails-says it can't open the CDROM.

So I put put in on a USB stick, and it boots and loads JMFS, but then it says that it can't find any Tivo drives. At the time, the Tivo drive is the only drive on the PC. Tried both the factory drive and the copied WD20EURS, same result, even though both of them boot and work fine on the Tivo.

Hi, I have a brand new Premiere 4 with a WD500AVDS and I am trying to upgrade using DVRBARS to a 2TB WD20EURS (manuf May, 2013).

I copied the disk and it works fine, it boots and plays and all shows are there, but I can't get it to expand or supersize. The new drive shows the same recording capacity.

I tried running the linux JMFS-rev104.iso on a bootable CD but it fails-says it can't open the CDROM.

So I put put the JMFS iso on a USB stick, it loads and runs, but then it says that it can't find any Tivo drives. At the time, the Tivo drive is the only drive on the PC. Tried both the factory drive and the copied WD20EURS, same result, even though both of them boot and work fine on the Tivo.

I am doing this on an ASUS P8Z68-V Pro mobo with Win 7-64. This motherboard has a mixture of SATA 2 and 3 plugs, I haven't checked which the drive is plugged into, will that matter?

Hi, I have a brand new Premiere 4 with a WD500AVDS and I am trying to upgrade using DVRBARS to a 2TB WD20EURS (manuf May, 2013).

I copied the disk and it works fine, it boots and plays and all shows are there, but I can't get it to expand or supersize. The new drive shows the same recording capacity.

I tried running the linux JMFS-rev104.iso on a bootable CD but it fails-says it can't open the CDROM.

So I put put the JMFS iso on a USB stick, it loads and runs, but then it says that it can't find any Tivo drives. At the time, the Tivo drive is the only drive on the PC. Tried both the factory drive and the copied WD20EURS, same result, even though both of them boot and work fine on the Tivo.

I am doing this on an ASUS P8Z68-V Pro mobo with Win 7-64. This motherboard has a mixture of SATA 2 and 3 plugs, I haven't checked which the drive is plugged into, will that matter?

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

I'd stick with the SATA-2 ports, but that's about the only thing I have to offer. The linux distro that jmfs uses may not understand newer hardware, but that's only a wild-assed-guess.

If you cannot get the to work by moving to a different SATA port, try a USB to SATA plugged into a USB 2 port. JMFS does not recognize any USB 3 ports. At least as far as all the USB 3 ports I have tested.

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Eliminate the need for a C&DE by the person who receives the drive, or the image:

Eliminate the need for a C&DE by the person who receives the drive, or the image:

Here's the trick:

When you are all done on your end, with everything else, do a C&DE, and have the time to babysit the TiVo. Once it finishes the C&DE, it will do another reboot (without ever fully booting all the way, throughout this). PROMPLY pull the power cord as soon as all the lights flash (after the C&DE screen is done), or within seconds of the "Welcome Powering Up" screen comes on (once it gets to "Just a few minutes more", it is too late). This will stop the drive from bonding itself to the TSN of the TiVo it is currently in, and will eliminate the need for a C&DE by the person who receives the drive, or the image made from it.

If you cannot get the to work by moving to a different SATA port, try a USB to SATA plugged into a USB 2 port. JMFS does not recognize any USB 3 ports. At least as far as all the USB 3 ports I have tested

Thanks jmbach, this worked. I dug out my mobo manual and I was wrong earlier, I have SATA 3 and 6 (not SATA 2 and 3, must have missed something the last 5 years). I checked all the other PC's in the house and they were all SATA 3 or 6.

I remembered I had an old IDE external clamshell SATA/USB thingy, so after locating a USB A/B cable, hooked it up and within 2 minutes it was done.

I thought the 2TB limit had to do with hardware available at the time and possibly the OS not supporting an unsigned integer. I don't see a reason why it can't go to 4TB (other than high cost of drives).

The total sector count in partition 10 is actually a 64 bit entry - future goal of > 4TB???

I have a 648250 image at home, but it's identical to the 648 WinMFS image that's already out there in many posts.

In the useless information department, it's not hard to convert if you have Windows 7. In Disk Manager, create a blank dynamic VHD that's exactly the same size as the drive that the WinMFS image came from, but don't let Disk Manager initialize it. Use WinMFS to restore to the virtual drive, then dismount it.

I have a perfect image of a TCD748000 Premiere XL straight from the factory. I also have a nearly pristine TCD746320 Premiere image, but it's larger because it came from a drive that had already been through one upgrade. If you have a "virgin" drive laying around somewhere, run a full backup and send me a PM. Someday I hope to have clean images of every recent model available to the community.

Donate if you can. An awful lot of time and money has gone into this project so far, and the 100GB Dropbox account I set up for the images wasn't free either.

KUDOS:

Two members here (retiredqwest and jmbach) deserve a LOT of thanks and a big chunk of the credit. Their support and patience made it possible.

The pioneers who developed mfstools and jmfs also have my deepest thanks. DvrBARS is an entirely new work, but the basic knowledge of the MFS file system came from them.

AND FINALLY:

I'll shut up now. If you have any problems (and there are bound to be some) post the details here.

Enjoy!
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I have a TIVO TCD540140 WITH A NEW 120g MAXTOR DRIVE, do you have a clean image of this drive?